Record Revenues, Key Milestones, and Strategic Initiatives Are
Highlighted in Bentley’s Annual Reporting to Its User Organizations

EXTON, Pa. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — April 13, 2012 —
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to
providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining
infrastructure, today announced the release of its 2011 Annual
Report, available in digital format at
www.bentley.com/annualreport.
The company’s performance highlights noted in this 20-page,
easy-to-read, 4-megabyte publication include:

record revenues – growing 10 percent to $523 million on
historical GAAP basis,

new milestone in investment – bringing total investment in R&D
and acquisitions since the beginning of 2003 to more than $1 billion,

Asia acceleration – with Asia revenues growing to 19 percent of
total revenues from 16 percent in 2010, and revenues from Greater
China doubling in the last two years,

the breadth and depth of Bentley’s comprehensive portfolio, forinformation modeling through integrated projects for intelligent
infrastructure.

Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley said, “Our purpose in providing annual
reporting is to serve our investors – that is, our user organizations –
by sharing with them our achievements in the year past and our
priorities and strategies going forward. I strongly encourage all of our
users to take a few minutes to review our annual report and also to
please provide us with feedback, through their respective Bentley
account representatives, on how we can better serve their needs. We
value this input and consider it essential to our goal of ‘working smarter,
together’ with users.”

John Jahraus, Bechtel’s Chief Technology Officer, said, “I had an
opportunity to see an advanced copy of Bentley’s 2011 Annual Report. The
information presented is concise and provides useful insight into
Bentley’s 2011 product innovations and acquisitions, as well as the
technology trends driving its current development work.”

Bentley is the global leader dedicated to providing architects,
engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators
with comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure.
Bentley’s mission is to empower its users to leverage information
modeling through integrated projects for high-performing
intelligent infrastructure. Its solutions encompass the MicroStation
platform for infrastructure design and modeling, the ProjectWise
platform for infrastructure project team collaboration and work sharing,
and the AssetWise platform for infrastructure asset operations – all
supporting a broad portfolio of interoperable applications and
complemented by worldwide professional services. Founded in 1984,
Bentley has grown to nearly 3,000 colleagues in more than 45 countries
and over $500 million in annual revenues. Since 2003, the company has
invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

Additional information about Bentley is available at
www.bentley.com
and in
Bentley’s
annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an
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collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be
Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s
Year
in Infrastructure publications. To access a professional networking
site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect,
communicate, and learn from each other, visit
Be
Communities.

To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a
unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of
infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure
investments, visit
www.bentley.com/500.

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